"Breaking The Silence'is a documentary by John Pilger who takes shots at shrub the PNAC, general US imperialism, and the human suffering we've brought to Afghanistan
Pilger, to those who don't know asks the questions you wish media had the guts to ask. In this documentary he had folks at the state department squirming in their chairs. This was the second time I've seen this documentary. While, there is nothing in the film that most on this board are intimately familiar with it is none-the-less refreshing to see something on TV that resonated with the truth. Just thinking we need to get folks to see this film, as it is a quick introduction to the evil empire for the many with attention span deficits.
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INTERVIEW WITH JOHN PILGER ON 'BREAKING THE SILENCE'
Anthony Arnove interviews John Pilger on the making of his latest documentary, 'Breaking the Silence', and the extraordinary evidence he unearthed that illuminates the lies of senior US officials.
IN YOUR new documentary, you expose evidence that Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice knew that Iraq was not a threat. Can you describe this evidence?
IT'S THERE in their own words. I found some extraordinary archive footage in the middle of looking at hours of the Bush gang's pronouncements, which I used in 'Breaking the Silence'.
In Cairo, Egypt, on February 24, 2001, Powell said: "He
has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to use conventional power against his neighbors." This, of course, is the very opposite of what Bush and Blair told their respective peoples.
Powell even boasted that it was the U.S. policy of "containment" that had effectively disarmed the Iraqi dictator- again, the opposite of what Bush and Blair said time and again. On May 15, 2001, Powell went further and said that Saddam Hussein had not been able to "build his military back up or to develop weapons of mass destruction" for "the last 10 years." America, he said, had been successful in keeping him "in a box."
Two months later, Condoleezza Rice also described a weak, divided and militarily defenseless Iraq. "Saddam does not control the northern part of his country," she said. "We aim to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt."
So here were two of Bush's most important officials putting the lie to their own subsequent propaganda.
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http://pilger.carlton.com/print/133159
THE CUTTING EDGE - BREAKING THE SILENCE John Pilger investigates America's "war on terror" in this powerful documentary following the events of September 11th, which sees him filming in Afghanistan and the United States and acquiring previously unseen material from Iraq. Two years ago, as the bombs began to drop, George Bush promised Afghanistan "the generosity of America and its allies." Now the familiar old warlords are regaining power, religious fundamentalism is renewing its grip and military skirmishes continue routinely. In "liberated" Afghanistan, America has its military base and pipeline access, while the people have the warlords who are, says one woman, "in many ways worse than the Taliban." (From the UK, in Arabic, English and Pashto, English subtitles)
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